About the Speaker

Eric Kraemer is a Senior Program Manager for the Microsoft SQL Server Appliance Engineering Group. Responsible for the SQL Server Fast Track program, he also owns technical engagement with major hardware partners for SQL Appliance Engineering initiatives, including Parallel Data Warehouse.

Eric has been with Microsoft since 2008 and took over the SQL Server Fast Track program in 2009. Previously, he was Director of Consulting for Datallegro, a start-up company featuring a massively parallel database technology. He is a data warehousing evangelist with over a decade of experience in high-scale data warehouse design and implementation having worked in both IT and business analyst roles.